17/08/2026
Incredible news: a life-saving HIV treatment is now available on the NHS
Lenacapavir been commissioned by the NHS following a campaign from National AIDS Trust and our partners and friends across the sector. Our partners BHIVA - British HIV Association, UK-CAB, and ACT UP London, as well as individual clinicians, were instrumental in this campaign.
Daniel Fluskey, Director of Policy said: "This is a huge decision for people who need life-saving treatment and takes us a step closer to ensuring that no one dies from AIDS-related illnesses here in the UK. Over years too many people have lost loved ones, family, and friends because of a lack of access to medicine and the harm caused by stigma, prejudice, and discrimination - so when a new life-saving treatment is available it must get to the people who need it."
"We’ve come so far with HIV treatment that people can now expect to live long and healthy lives with HIV, and alongside improvements in HIV prevention we have all the tools needed to achieve the UK Government’s goal of ending new HIV transmissions and AIDS-related deaths by 2030 – as long as those tools can be easily accessed by everyone who needs them.”
Thank you to everyone who was part of this – you make the difference. Hundreds of you, our supporters, signed our petition calling for the NHS to make this happen. It’s a reminder that in the fight for HIV rights and treatment, progress comes when we work together and take a stand.
And now nearly one hundred people a year living with HIV who were resistant to traditional anti-retroviral therapy will now receive life-saving treatment.
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